Another possibility that I run into occasionally is with a sound device that's integrated into the motherboard.
I've never figured out why this happens, but once in awhile I have to go into the bios and re-enable my sound
device.

Al Thompson

E B Lund wrote:

> I missed the beginning of this post, but I have found that if I have more
> than one application trying to run with sounds, one of them often loses out.
> Is there something running in the background?
>
> Also, any chance there's a loose wire inside your computer.  A while back I
> couldn't get CD's to play on my computer, despite the fact that the CD-ROM
> was functional.  Seems at some point I knocked a wire loose.  When I
> subsequently installed something else, I ended up reconnecting the wire from
> the CD player and voila, music.
>
> William Closure
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Date:    Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:15:23 -0500
> > From:    arail <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Thanks for the advice Peter Shkabara. I tried Sounds and I have no sounds
> > whatsoever, it's not just my Windows Media Player. I went through all the
> > Help screens I could find on the topic. Any further ideas? I can't listen
> > to This American Life on my computer!

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